Meryl
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#8,689
down −3,135 places
2025 births
12
down −11 births
All-time births
5,167
0% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1956
- 156 births
- Best rank
- #751
- in 1952
- First recorded
- 1892
- #1,400 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1963
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 128 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1956156#795Peak
- 1954143#785
- 1952141#751
- 1957141#856
- 1953132#802
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #751 in 1952 · peak births 156 in 1956
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 8% boys■ 92% girls
432 boys · 5,167 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Meryl has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.